Monday, January 27, 2014

Typography

Typography is an art performed by typesetters and typo graphics. Other professions who use this technique include compositions, graphic designers, art directors, comic book artists and graffiti artists. This technique of arranging type also arranges Type design and modifies type glyphs by using a variety of illustration techniques. Typography was considered a specialized occupation right up to t he digital age. However a new generation of visual designers and buy users emerged when digitization was founded.

A glyph is a particular mark on a written medium gives sense to what is written. A grapheme is made up of one or more glyphs. A typeface is usually made up of letters of the alphabet, numerals and punctuation marks. It was also consist of ideograms and symbols and may also include mathematical or map-making symbols.

Font is often confused with the term typeface. Before desktop publishing the two terms were more differed. A font can be a specific member of a type family such as roman, boldface, or italic type. A type face has an appearance or style from a family or related set of fonts.

Graphic designers assemble images together using typography ad motion graphics they create images and design. They also  create the graphics for published or electronic media, advertising and brochures.
They are also involved in the wed design illustration and typesetting of the job. It is of importance that once can access and be memorable.




References:

Kacee918, 2011. The Swiss Style. [Online] 
Available at: http://swissgraphicdesign.blogspot.com/2011/04/swiss-style.html


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